A leftist idea can be recognized by three earmarks, It will be:

1) Founded in ignorance,
2) Focused on irrelevance,
3) Engaged in wishful thinking.

Mark Philip Alger
http://www.babytrollblog.com/
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4) "And threaten use of the coercive power of the state to extract compliance."
--Arnold's Corollary (ed.)

Yup, and the political right has it's own set of faulty hypotheses (gay cooties for example) and follows up with the same number 4). This is why, in part, the U.S. Constitution only granted the government an enumerated set of powers. To protect the people against things the government has no business getting involved in. But virtually no one pays attention to the Constitution anymore.--Joe]